Rudman

So Rep. Dan Rostenkowski would like to see Gramm-Rudman repealed? In his interview on CBS he is quoted as saying, "Gramm-Rudman is a crutch, a collective confession of our inability to lead and our unwillingness to face up to our responsibilities." What makes him think that anything has changed since it was passed? If he feels restricted in spending new taxes, the act must be doing some good! All the more reason to keep Gramm-Rudman.

(Update with comments from Rudman's law firm) LITTLETON, N.H., Nov 20 (Reuters) - Former U.S. Senator Warren Rudman, a moderate New Hampshire Republican known for a budget deal that helped slash government deficits in the 1990s, died on Monday at age 82, state officials said. Rudman, who had been undergoing chemotherapy for cancer, served in the Senate from 1980 to 1993. He was best known for his work in the 1980s on what became known as the...

Despite almost two decades of legal battles between the residents of the Cherry Hill subdivision and a Joliet school district, Thursday's decision by a Will County Circuit Court Judge in favor of Cherry Hill still leaves the bitter dispute far from settled. In an administrative review requested by the school district, Will County Associate Judge Martin Rudman ruled in favor of the residents who want to detach from Joliet Township District 204 and become part of Lincoln-Way High...

Former U.S. Sen. Warren Rudman, a moderate New Hampshire Republican known for a budget deal that helped slash government deficits in the 1990s, died Monday at 82, state officials said. Rudman, who served in the Senate from 1980 to 1993, was best known for his work in the 1980s on what became known as the Gramm-Rudman Act -- a bipartisan budget agreement that provided automatic cuts to federal spending if the deficit exceeded certain targets. A platoon leader...

Macy's Inc. has been sued by a shareholder for allegedly concealing that the integration of former May Department Stores Co. was failing. The company overstated sales forecasts between Feb. 8 and May 15, artificially inflating its share price, according to a complaint filed by Lerach Coughlin Stoia Geller Rudman & Robbins LLP on behalf of Robert Garber. The firm said Monday it filed the claim seeking class-action status. Macy's, which changed its name this...

The son of former Joliet fire chief Larry Walsh was sentenced Friday to 24 hours in Will County Jail and ordered to perform 300 hours of community service for stealing a Fire Department transmitter in 1996 and selling the unit to Will County. Will County Associate Judge Martin Rudman handed down the sentence to Richard Walsh, 40, of Joliet, after Walsh's attorney, Michelle Hanson of the Will County public defender's office, presented a check, made out to the city of Joliet, for...

Molly Magid, nee Rudman, beloved wife of the late Hyman; loving mother of Joanne (Arnold) Tuleja and Marshall (Helen) Magid; adored Nana of Steven, Aaron (Fiancee Dayna) and Julie; cherished sister of the late Harry (the late Anna), Maurice (the late Dorothy) and Frank (the late Gertie) Rudman, Ann (the late Al) Greenberg. Graveside Service, Friday, 1 p.m. at Menorah Gardens Cemetery, 17th Ave., Broadview (south of Roosevelt Rd. and north of Cermak). In lieu of flowers, contributions to the American Cancer Society.

Molly Magid, nee Rudman, beloved wife of the late Hyman; loving mother of Joanne (Arnold) Tuleja and Marshall (Helen) Magid; adored Nana of Steven, Aaron (Fiancee Dayna) and Julie; cherished sister of the late Harry (the late Anna), Maurice (the late Dorothy) and Frank (the late Gertie) Rudman, Ann (the late Al) Greenberg. Graveside Service, Friday, 1 p.m. at Menorah Gardens Cemetery, 17th Ave., Broadview (south of Roosevelt Rd. and north of Cermak). In lieu of flowers, contributions to the American Cancer Society.

By David Broder, Washington Post Writers Group. David Broder is a syndicated columnist based in Washington, D.C | July 8, 2003

We have been warned. Our country remains woefully unprepared to cope with another terrorist assault. The warning comes not from some paranoid characters on the political fringe, but from a sober set of experienced government officials--one of whom, at least, was prescient about the dangers most of us discovered only when the World Trade Center and the Pentagon were attacked. He is Warren Rudman, the former Republican senator from New Hampshire, who, with...

Amid reports that the Supreme Court was about to rule a key section of the Gramm-Rudman-Hollings budget-balancing act unconstitutional, administration and congressional leaders Monday examined their options on how to deal with the decision. White House Budget Director James Miller told reporters that President Reagan wants to meet the $144 billion deficit target of the law while Senate Majority Leader Bob Dole (R., Kan.) said there might be an attempt to rewrite the act to make it...